Suspected drunk driver charged in Sunday's fatal crash

LAFAYETTE — Twenty-seven-year-old Mekeisha Diamond Roberts and her boyfriend, 30-year-old Michael Creamer, argued with each other just before the crash Sunday that killed Creamer, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Tatiana Jones, a backseat passenger in the car, told police Roberts drove the car, swerving back and forth on Indiana 38, as she argued with Creamer, who was the front-seat passenger, according to the affidavit.

Roberts told police she thought another car hit her car, causing her to lose control and crash, according to the affidavit. But Jones said there was no other car, and Roberts told police she did not see another car, according to the affidavit.

Police estimate Roberts crashed her car about 2:45 a.m. Sunday, striking a utility pole and driving into the landscape beds near the Batteries Plus store on Indiana 38 east of Sagamore Parkway, according to the affidavit.

Police found Creamer unresponsive inside the wreckage, according to police. He was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. An autopsy indicated he died from blunt force injuries in the crash, according to the affidavit.

Prosecutors charged Roberts Thursday with driving while intoxicated causing death, driving while intoxicated causing death while having a blood-alcohol content of more than .08 percent.

Roberts' blood-alcohol content tested .11 percent, according to the affidavit.

Prosecutors also charged her with driving while intoxicated causing serious bodily injury and driving while intoxicated causing serious bodily injury with a blood-alcohol content of .08 more more.

There are other things that Roberts shouldn't have been doing Sunday, based on the charges filed Thursday.

Prosecutors charged her with two counts of driving without ever being licensed.

And even if she had tried to get a license, she couldn't because of previous driving offenses, including a prior driving without ever being licensed, according to the affidavit.

Because her driving privileges are revoked from her previous convictions, prosecutors charged her with driving while suspended.

Tippecanoe County Prosecutor Patrick Harrington told the Journal & Courier earlier this week that his office intends to file a petition to revoke her probation in that case based on the allegations in the charges filed Thursday.

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